Comparative genomic analyses reveal a lack of a substantial signature of host adaptation in Rhodococcus equi ('Prescottella equi')

Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 352-356

  Sangal, Vartul ^a,b   Jones, Amanda L ^b   Goodfellow, Michael ^c   Sutcliffe, Iain C ^b   Hoskisson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Prescottella equi'; Genome; Metabolic differences; Opportunistic pathogen; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; FOAL; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; HUMAN; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RHODOCOCCUS HOAGII; VETERINARY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84905675268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2049632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2049-632X.12126     Document Type: Article

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